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submitted 1 day ago by countrypunk@slrpnk.net to c/diy@slrpnk.net

Howdy DIYers,

I happened across a lovely dell inspirion 8500. They just don't design laptops like this anymore.

Now, it's very old. It has RAM in the megabytes, so not really usable these days. I'm wondering if anybody has put a new motherboard or somehow upgraded this or a similar laptop to be decent but still keep the shell.

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[-] B0rax@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Nobody makes their own PCBs at home anymore. You likely order them from JLCPCB or pcbway. Look up KiCAD on how to design them.

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